UNIT 8: Imperialism, Progressivism, and WWI (1890-1920)
PERIOD 7: (1890-1945)
TIME FRAME: (2.5 weeks) Tentative Exam Date and Due Date March 10th/11th (Day
B)/(Day A) for HIPPOS, Presidency Charts, Long-Essay Question, and Terms/IDs. PACE
YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY- LAST WEEK OF UNIT PLAN SHOULD BE STRICTLY
REVIEW!!
Big Picture:
From 1890 to 1920, the United States became increasingly active and aggressive in world affairs.
The Progressive movement partially succeeded in improving life for average Americans by
curbing big business, making the government more responsive to the will of the people, and
enacting social welfare legislation. President Woodrow Wilson tries to reinforce these beliefs at
the end of WWI.
Essential Question: What were the consequences of American economic and political expansion
domestically and internationally?
Themes:
Diversity, American identity, culture, demographic changes, economic transformations,
environment, politics and citizenship, reform, globalization, war and diplomacy
Required Reading:
Chapters 20-22 in AMSCO Book
PowerPoint organization: Ch.21 Imperialism; Ch.22 Progressivism; Ch.23 WWI
Primary Sources for HIPPOS analysis:
Declaration of War; William McKinley
Strategic Reasons for American Expansion: The “Big Navy” Argument; Alfred Thayer Mahan
New Nationalism; Theodore Roosevelt } These sources are on
New Freedom; Woodrow Wilson
} the same PDF file
Presidency Charts:
Complete a presidency chart on: William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft,
Woodrow Wilson
Long-Essay Question (LEQ/LAQ/LRQ):
Assess the relative influence of THREE of the following in the American decision to declare war
on Germany in 1917.
 German naval policy
 American economic interests
 Woodrow Wilson’s idealism
 Allied propaganda
 America’s claim to world power
Content:
Women’s roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform
Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidents
Origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national
Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century
American imperialism: political and economic expansion
War in Europe and American neutrality
The First World War at home and abroad
Treaty of Versailles
Society and economy in the postwar years
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“new manifest destiny”
Maximilian of Mexico
Pan-Americanism
Venezuela Boundary Dispute, 1895-96
Queen Liliuokalani
reconcentration
“Butcher” Weyler
Commodore George Dewey
Battle of Manila Bay
Emilio Aguinaldo
“Rough Riders”
Treaty of Paris, 1899
Anti-Imperialist League
“splendid little war”
Open Door Policy
“spheres of influence”
Secretary of State John Hay
“gunboat diplomacy”
“Colossus of the North”
San Francisco School Board Incident
Panama Canal Tolls Act
plutocracy
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
Robert La Follette
“Wisconsin Experiment”
Republican “Old Guard”
Australian Ballot/secret ballot
commission system
Bureau of Corporations
Newlands Reclamation Act, 1902
Panic of 1907
“rule of reason”
“New Nationalism”
“Bull-Moose” Party
“New Freedom”
Eugene Debs, Socialist party
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Louis Brandeis
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Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 1923
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Carrie Chapman Catt, “Winning Plan”
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Alice Paul
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Jeannette Rankin
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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
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Chicago Race Riot, 1919
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D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation
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Ku Klux Klan
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eugenics
47. Central Powers, Triple Alliance
48. Allies, Triple Entente
49. Britain’s naval blockade
50. Sussex Ultimatum
51. unrestricted submarine warfare
52. “Make the world safe for democracy”
53. “War to end all wars”
54. Creel Committee, Committee on Public Information
55. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
56. The “Great Migration” of African Americans
57. voluntary compliance
58. Bond drives, Liberty Loans
59. Archangel expedition
60. Western Front
61. General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing
62. Meuse-Argonne Offensive
63. Paris Peace Conference
64. Big Four
65. mandates
66. Article 231
67. “self-determination”
68. “Irreconcilables”